What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.
— Maya Angelou
Profound my muse quotes that are about be your own muse
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Don't be different just for different's sake.
If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force.
She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.
Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up
No two on earth in all things can agree;
All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.
The muse doesn't come without being called.
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker.
I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing.
It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Who knows where inspiration comes from.
Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.